GBITI, Cameroon, June 6 (UNHCR) – As Ibrahim plays happily in front of his mother in the Cameroonian border town of Gbiti, he looks like any other seven-year-old. But when he turns, visitors are taken aback by a deep scar in his head. The ugly machete wound will be a life-long reminder of his bru...

MBILE REFUGEE CAMP, Cameroon, May 26 (UNHCR) – Four months ago, Ramatou faced every parent's worst nightmare – the possibility of losing a child. Last week, she had a joyful reunion with two of her missing sons, aged 10 and 11, at a refugee camp in eastern Cameroon, but it was a bitter-sweet moment ...

Houriatou is distraught and in tears. She has become used to loss since her native Central African Republic exploded into violence last December, but the death of her 18-month-old grandson, Djaratou, from severe malnutrition seemed particularly cruel to her, and she can't hold back. The 40-year-old ...

GENEVA, 18 June (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency said on Tuesday the on-going crisis in northeastern Nigeria's Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe States is causing new arrivals of refugees in Niger, and now in Cameroon. "In Cameroon, a UNHCR team visited areas along the Nigeria-Cameroon border in the Far No...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 11 June 2013, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The crisis in northeastern Nigeria has forced more than 6,000 mainly women, children and elderly people to...